Category: Thoughts & quotes from Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. & Susan Hawkins

…Awareness reflects a different set of operating principles and tends to be more benign and global in its responses.  It sees the whole picture and responds in accord.  Aware mind is not prone to banal positionalities or judgments nor does it get entrapped in frenetic endeavors.  It tends to be easy-going and mellow and prefers to observe rather than to become involved in worldly definitions of gain or loss.  We speak of that type of relating to the world as ‘laid back’ or ‘philosophical’. While the thinking mind of the ego says “Isn’t that awful,” awareness knows that it is merely the ebb and flow of life and that, in the end, is all the same.

That sounds like a passive attitude.

To the ego, peace sounds inactive and passive because the ego thinks in terms of ‘doing’ something, such as seeking control, gain, or avoidance.  The ego darts through traffic, pushes the speed limit, and watches for police cars.  It fumes at delays and stupid drivers; it tailgates and curses under its breath at slow traffic.  It blows its horn and passes on curves.  it is driven by the hope of beating time and jumping the line.  It shakes its fist at the driver who moves ahead in line and it vows terrible vengeance.  While all this is going on, simultaneously, the ego is planning work strategies, talking on the cell phone, and listening to the radio.

In contrast, aware mind flows with the traffic and enjoys being courteous and letting some poor soul into the traffic line in front of it.  “Give the guy a break” is okay to the easy-going perspective of awareness.

I:Reality and Subjectivity, Ch. 18, pgs. 316-317

 

You recommend that we shift attention away from the negative feeling. How is this different from repressing the feeling?

Repression is an unconscious process by which unaccepted feelings are put out of awareness and not dealt with. In shifting attention, you make a choice not to indulge the negative emotion. You have already acknowledged and accepted the feeling within yourself as part of being human, but you are choosing to let it go because you want something higher, like peacefulness, harmony, and getting the job done. People will sometimes shift their attention by way of actions such as rearranging the furniture a little bit, opening and closing the window shades, making a quick trip to the bathroom, or going for a short coffee break.

These actions allow for a moment to shift from the negative to the positive.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 21, pg. 313

…it does seem to the ego to sacrifice all of that glory and fame and justification and revenge and all,  is a big sacrifice. Don’t kid yourself. To the ego, it is a big sacrifice. It is a big sacrifice to let go “being right,” to let go . .  not nurturing that wrong, to let go of that hatred. It is a big sacrifice—don’t pretend it’s a small sacrifice. There’s a lot of pseudo, nongenuine spiritual work that people attempt, and it doesn’t work. Why? Because they are unwilling to face the nitty-gritty, the nitty-gritty facts.

Radical truth means you’ve got to take the mask off everything and be willing to see it for what it is, and now handle it from the viewpoint of emotional honesty. There is a big, massive payoff in ego positions, or you wouldn’t be sitting here in a body today. You would have karmically gone off into the mists of the higher realms. And therefore, the fact that one is back here in a body again means that one has sold out spiritual truth for the gratifications of the ego over and over again. But in this lifetime, it’s coming up to be questioned. In this lifetime, you say, “Was it worth it?

Is the experience of the Presence of God worth sacrificing all that I get out of my ego?” The answer can only be gotten by faith, actually. Experientially, no. Experientially, you’ve got nothing upon which to say that giving it up would be a better deal. Anything in your experience telling you that giving up the pleasure, resentments, and hatreds and satisfactions of winning is worth it? Not experientially, no. Faith, yes. Based on the faith.

the experience of God, is so incredible, beyond all description—so beyond the totality of all the values of all of mankind throughout all of history. All the pleasures and all the values and all the acquisitions, emotionally and materially of all of mankind throughout all of history, are like a speck compared to the Presence of God. Nothing is even in the same domain. 

The Path to Spiritual Advancement, Ch. 8, pgs. 171-172  (new book)

If consciousness is not personal, what does it mean we earn the chance for better opportunities or for better choices? It’s like consciousness is the field, the field; karma is still content. One has not escaped content yet. To go beyond karma means to have escaped the limitation of content. Consciousness is infinite context. It has no form, like the sky. Karma would be like a cloud. It still has form; it hangs loose within the sky; it’s within the sky. So, karma then would be the consequence of one’s spiritual decisions have an influence on the shape of the cloud, but consciousness is like the sky. The field of consciousness which is impersonal is unaffected by the cloud. Where the cloud goes in the sky will depend on its shape, size, consistency, humidity, barometric pressure, and many things, yes? You see, in the meditative technique to realize the Presence of God, one
goes back from identifying with the content of consciousness to the field itself to realize that I am not the content of the mind; I am that upon which the mind is playing, see? It’s like I am the receiver and not the notes of the music. The receiver remains the same no matter what music is
playing on it.  You all of a sudden jump from identifying with the content—I am those thoughts, words, images and memories—to I am That which empowers them to become known. So, you become the knower of the field. You become the witness. You become, at a certain level, the experiencer.

The Path to Spiritual Advancement: Ch. 9, pg. 199-200 – this is a newly released book available through Amazon and Hay House, Inc.

If you’re caught in an emotional emergency, the best way to do is to breathe the energy up from – usually, it’s your solar plexus that’s in a panic.  Breathe the energy of your solar plexus up to the crown chakra, and while you do that, go, “hahaha, hahaha,” while thumping the thymus, and the sound of “mm.” As you breathe the energy up, you’re out of the panic right away; you’re out of the upset.  …You thump over the thymus gland.  The thymus gland is the controller of the acupuncture system and the immune system.  It’s right behind the breastbone.  The sound “ah” makes you go strong with kinesiology, as does Love.  So if you want to come out of a bad energy state, you think of somebody you love and you go, “hahaha, hahaha, hahaha,” as you thump the chest.  Now, if I test you with kinesiology, you’ll go strong.

New! 

 The Path to Spiritual Advancement: How to Transcend the Ego and Experience the Presence of God, Ch. 4, pg. 83